SOCIAL STUDIES: Research Project on Religion: Human Religion Geography

ATLAS OF FAITHS

Religious groups have a geographic distribution that shows their expantion and dominant areas. The Western World (America and Europe) is mostly Christian Catholic, the Middle East (North Africa and West Asia) preaches the Islam and the East Hemisphere (India, China and Mongolia) divides itself into Hinduism, Buddhism and Agnosticism).

Activity: Using internet resources, your group is going to find out the distribution of the followers of the religion you chose, among the countries of the World and EACH ONE OF THE MEMBERS is going  to represent the amount and country of followers it in a statistical chart (whether in a graph or in bars), IN HIS NOTEBOOK. Take as a basis the exercise on Islam carried out last class.

Silent Reading Rubric

Silent Reading Rubric

Criteria	SUPERIOR (100% a 90%)	ALTO (89% a 80%	BÁSICO 79% a 65%)	BAJO (65 a 0%)
Time on Task	Able to keep self on task despite other distractions. Attends to text for entire reading time.	Maintains own focus, but can be distracted by others’ actions or words; returns to text consistently if distracted.	Sometimes shows focus, but is distracted by others’ actions or words; it is difficult to return to text if distracted.	Easily distracted by self and others; unfocussed; avoids reading; never on task during reading time.
Preparedness	Begins reading quickly. Reads for the entire time. Is respectful of others who are reading	Sometimes has to be reminded to begin reading. Reads for only a short time.  Is often disrespectful of others who are reading	Has to be reminded to begin reading. Reads for only a very short time.  Is usually disrespectful of others who are reading	Does not begin reading. Reads only when teacher is watching. Is  disrespectful of others who are reading
Engagement	Begins reading immediately and becomes immersed in reading for entire SILENT READING time.	Usually begins reading independently, and requires minimal teacher prompting to maintain reading focus.	Rarely begins reading independently, and requires  teacher prompting to maintain reading focus.	Requires teacher prompting and intervention to start and maintain reading focus.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Research Project on Religion: Characters

Last class the groups researched about the HISTORY of their doctrines. Today you are going to focus on two MAIN CHARACTERS that have contributed to the development of that particular way of seeing things that the doctrine emphasizes.
At the end of the class, you must send to my e-mail your advances in the topic. The inform should stress the main biographical elements of the characters, their ideas, and some of the controversies they have raised. An idea to write your report is to answer the questions: who they were, when they lived, what they thought, what they did, why is this important.

Examples:

If your topic is CHRISTIANITY you should focus on JESUS CHRIST
If your topic is ATHEISM you should focus on NIETZSCHE
If your topic is ISLAM you should focus on MOHAMMAD

(sebastian.agudelo@laarboleda.edu.co)

SOCIAL STUDIES: Research Project on Religion: History

The Groups have already chosen the Religions or doctrines they are going to research about and advance in expositions before the class. Upon a good research and preparation depends a good presentation and a good grade. There are many things of interest that we should include in the presentations (history: origin and spread, main characters, beliefs, myths, writtings, pillars, life after death, relationship with society and other religions) and the time is short. This is why we need to organize our schedule.


Thus, today you are going to focus on the HISTORY of the religion or doctrine that corresponds you. At the end of the class you must send me a written report stressing what you have learnt about the history of your religious topic. Write at least three paragraphs on your own with synthetized information. Do not forget to state your bibliographic resources. COPY AND PASTE IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE AND IS CONDUCIVE TO ANNULMENT.

Use your time with wisdom since you can't get it back!!

sebastian.agudelo@laarboleda.edu.co

The following is the RUBRIC upon which your presentation will be evaluated, take it into account during your preparation:

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Knowledge of Topic/Historical Accuracy and Information	Shows a full understanding of the topic. All historical information appeared to be accurate	Shows a good understanding of the topic. Almost all historical information appeared to be accurate.	Shows a good understanding  of parts of the topic. Most of the historical information was accurate	Does not seem to understand the topic very well. Very little of the historical information was accurate
Required Elements/ Work Product	Student included more information than was required.	Student included all information that was required.	Student included most information that was required.	Student included less information than was required.
Creativity/ Originality	Product shows a large amount of original thought. Ideas are creative and inventive.	Product shows some original thought. Work shows new ideas and insights.	Uses other  people's ideas (giving them credit), but there is little evidence of  original thinking.	Uses other people's ideas, but  does not give them credit.
Clarity	Speaks clearly and distinctly all (100-95%) the time, and mispronounces no words.	Speaks clearly and distinctly all (100-95%) the time, but mispronounces one word	Speaks clearly and distinctly most ( 94-85%) of the time. Mispronounces no more  than one word.	Often mumbles or can not be understood  OR mispronounces more than one word
Oral Presentation	Interesting, well-rehearsed with smooth delivery that holds audience attention.	Relatively interesting, rehearsed with a fairly smooth delivery that usually holds audience attention.	Delivery not smooth, but able to hold audience  attention most of the time.	Delivery not smooth and audience attention lost.

RÚBRICAS PARA LENGUA CASTELLANA, PERÍODO I.